#impressions

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. ↗

— John Ruskin

#demonstrations #facts #impressions #science #substitute

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#certain #deceive #dependable #experience #feign

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#brass #coins #current #gold #honor

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#father #impressions #just #man #manhood

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand. ↗

— Edward Albee

#happen #immediately #impressions #know #loose

When I see the best of myself in others, it makes a good first impression. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #projection #funny

That's when I caught my first glimpse of Blaine Crabtree. He was sandwiched in between two guys that were laughing at who knows what. At first I didn't notice anything but a big mop of bleached blonde hair, then he looked up from his pack of cloves and I was locked into the bluest eyes that I had ever seen. His expression didn't change, he didn't smile and didn't blink. It seemed like I was lost in his eyes, like he was using them to do the most calculated math problem, and that math problem was me. ↗

— Magan Vernon

#new-adult #romance #southerners #change

My demeanor isn't that of a woman enraged. To see me slumped, glassy-eyed, holding a sandwich someone has cut for me into four "manageable" pieces, a person might tell you I look much more like a woman subdued. ↗

— Koren Zailckas

#anger-impressions #angry #break-up #break-ups #depression

The words came out slowly, haltingly, as if they had cost him a struggle. Nan had noticed before now that anger was too big a garment for him; it always hung on him in uneasy folds. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#anger

I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time. ↗

— Lee Child

#because #been #best #coming #exposure